eleven minutes

I desperately need to rave about eleven minutes by Paulo Coelho. Btw, (spoiler) 11minutes is the average time people take to have sexual intercourse.

Coelho is indeed one of the most inspiring and groundbreaking authors of our time. Never afraid of being controversial and bold in his ideas and words. It makes me embarassed reading his stuff and yet his words and plot are so captivating I go on and on and on....

It's all about the orgasm and finding pleasure in pain.

And yet it's all about Love for the sake of Love.

At the end of it, I'm so glad and touched Maria the prostitute found Love for Love itself.


A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

~Ecclesiastes 3:2

So so beautiful.